Long Blue note Poems

what do you need to be told
to make you capable of pragmatic liberation
which could be the foundation to a new
assessment of the inevitable
darkness is our measure but never our limit
its manic prism reflects everything all...

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BLUE

             Blue flame:               Blue gem    ...

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A Merchant Marine
At fifteen, he went to sea
A way to begin

Harsh Realities
Learning to be a real man
Life was on the run

Scrapes and falls and bumps
Toughening the young fledgling
Losing some feathers

A long way from home
He creates...

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Like a cocotte I’m used, abused and bruised
From late evening to late hours of the night
Getting stains all over like that of love making
My master’s pocket full and that of people, light.

Just a little snooze...

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Everyone is podded off
Sipping, slipping into chill-consciousness
Blue Note-certified musings drip
From the tongues and lips
Busy, chewing the amplified air
The waitress saunters
Occasionally brushing up
Against the black-lacquered stallion
Resting quiet
Mums the word
It's ivory asleep
Begging to be woken
The 523p light
Provoked...

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you were haunting, elusive, bitter, sweet
your hair was long, dark, lost, lonely
you sang the scars of the streets

And when I die...
New York tendaberry…
and the past is a blue note

I wanted to embrace you
as I drowned...

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Six decades ago
the landscape of
my Little Nassau
had
places like
The Silver Slipper
The Blue Note
The Banana Boat
The Conch Shell
The Zanzibar
The Cat and Fiddle
and The Drumbeat Club
with activities like
Fire dancing
limbo dancing
steel bands
big bands
and Goombay drums
Interesting people like
Sweet Richard
Blind Blake...

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Once in a blue moon.
being blue in the blue hour, and then: 
'Damn it to blue blazes!' - out of the blue,
one may be just out of the blues. 

For the true blue feeling gone,
walking...

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